210. The thoughts and affections and also the speech of the angels of the inmost heaven are never perceived in the middle heaven, because they so far transcend what is there. But when it pleases the Lord, there appears from them in the lower heavens something like a flame, and from the thoughts and affections of those in the middle heaven there is seen in the outermost heaven something luminous and sometimes as a cloud shining white and variegated. From that cloud, its rising, falling and shape, what is being said is also in some measure known.